Clicker Training Free-shaping with a Bucket - Honey the Great Dane

www.bighoneydog.com / Honey the Great Dane does some free-shaping with a bucket...and kills a lot of buckets in the process! :-) Free-shaping is a great 'rainy day game' for dogs - they're exhausted after 5mins of it as they have to concentrate and think hard to try and work out which behaviours can earn a click...start with no specific trick in mind, just click the dog for any interaction with the object and see if you can gradually shape one action...

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Pets & Animals

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• mental
• workout

[scaIpeI]

That wrinkle in between the Great Dane's forehead. Is that from the Great Dane pushing up her eyebrows (like how a human makes a worrying face)?

If so, that's a really cool way of the dog to show emotion/thinking. Or is it just a common facial feature of all Great Danes?

[hsinyicohen]

@scaIpeI It is a common facial feature in Danes to have a "wrinkled brow" - it is just excess skin - but it does give their faces a very cute expression, as if they're worried or thinking deeping about something! Having said that, Honey does seem to wrinkle her brow more when she is concentrating on something so perhaps it is a sign of her thinking...but be careful not to humanise things too much. People always tend to overhumanise dog and give them human thoughts & emotions.

[killerkowalczyk]

I go to pick my dog up today at 4:30pm, hes a fawn male. I am EXTREMELY EXCITED! If he can be 1/2 as smart as Honey I'd be lucky.

[hsinyicohen]

Oh, congratulations!! That is wonderful news! Wishing you lots of happiness with your new family member! (BTW, Honeh is not particularly smart - she is quite dopey actually - but the more training you do, the faster dogs learn - the brain is the muscle like anything else! :-)

[VTECsqznN2O]

lol "you got to do som'thing with the bucket..."

what are the treats?

[hsinyicohen]

Actually, they were leftover surimi (crabsticks)!! :-)

[killerkowalczyk]

what is the earliest you should start training them to do the important things like sit, stay, come? Did you crate Honey at night as a puppy? Im having a hell of a time with BORT when we crate him at night, he cries for about an hour before going to sleep. He is pretty well house trained though, only peed in the house 3 times and no poop!

[Tatelina]

I love her expression the first time she got a click... she was like 'yippeee!!'

[RelentlesslyHuge]

Uh oh, I think I know what is coming next. She is going to make you spin your bottom around like an elephant in the circus.

I was confused by the "godosomethingwiththebucket" command, but I guess you figured it out.

Slobbers,

Mango

[pamelamarxsen]

I think she is having a blast with that bucket! It is amazing how fun clicker training is. I can not imagine life without it! Great work Honey!

[mrgeniusontv]

good girl, honey! and crabsticks for a treat-->no wonder she learns so quickly! =D

[AntondieDogge]

Honey,

I think you make it so good, you learn so quickly with the Clicker ...

my people have sometimes the Clicker in my set, I do not like the Chlick, and work - that's not my world ...

Super that you all can. unfortunately Auckland is too far away, maybe I would with you and for you to learn the work.

Paws clapping and we look forward to your next movie

Anton die Dogge